I'm an experience management consultant and advisor with focus on technology, IT and digital.
I help my clients to develop their business capabilities, innovate new concept and digital services and create winning strategies and operating models
Experience
2022 SOFIGATE, Espoo, Finland | Executive CTO, Sofigate's Studio & Operator business
Sofigate is the leading Business Technology Transformation company in the Nordics with some 600 management consultants and technology experts.
Sofigate's BT Integrator (180+ consultants) focuses on offering full-service technology transformation services from design into delivering continuous value creation - all you need for leading business & tech transformation!
As an Executive CTO I'm responsible for building attractive stories for Sofigate's Studio & Operator business, creating and facilitating Nordic level market visibility and awareness, continuously developing our offering, supporting sales with solutions and compelling substance as well as facilitating CTO ecosystem within the business stream.
I also support customers in key transformation initiatives with Sofigate's spearhead concepts and full-service offering from design into continuous value creation for example in M&A’s and business transformations.
My strengths include wide understanding of IT and digitalization, experience from various industries both from strategic and operational levels, capabilities to visually summarize the essentials, workshop facilitation skills and the ability to deliver results rapidly. Seeing the big picture, creating new concepts from scratch and communicating them clearly with different stakeholders are also my strong sides.
2020 SOFIGATE, Espoo, Finland | Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
Sofigate's Strategic Planning & Governance business (~50 management consultants) focuses on helping customers in future business capability design and capability planning through strategy & management advisory, modernized business processes, sourcing and supplier management, finance management and leading enterprise architecture transformations.
As the Chief Technology Officer, I focused on helping customers with new spearheading concepts and best practices but also on conceptualizing new ways of working and supporting technologies.
I was responsible for developing the overall offering of the Strategic Planning & Governance business along with supporting technologies. I was a member of business unit management team as well as Sofigate's CTO network where I contribute to company wide business development.
My customer cases typically focused on business capability design, capability planning, operating model development, strategies and concept development.
2019 SOFIGATE, Espoo, Finland | Senior Advisor
Consultant, facilitator and project manager in wide rage of Digital Capability Development initiatives across industries. These initiatives cover development topics from all aspects of capability development; technology, processes and competences. Lately I've focused mainly on activities such as strategy, operating models, concept design and client’s overall technology management improvement and digital core renewals.
I'm also participating in Sofigate's concept development and act as Concept Owner for Sofigate’s ROUNDTABLE solution - a time and place independent methodology and social media tool for decision making facilitation.
2013 SOFIGATE, Espoo, Finland | Project Manager
Consultant, Facilitator and external Project Manager in client’s projects for successfully lifting their IT organizations to the next level. In the recent years I’ve focused especially on assignments covering (IT) strategies, operating models, concept development, development models and digital transformation.
My areas of responsibilities vary from analysing client’s current state through documentations and interviewing C-level executives, workshop facilitation, collaboration with key stakeholders, designing solutions that solve client’s challenges into visualizing findings in an easily adoptable way and presenting them for top management.
As a result, clients have been able to rise the level IT Operations Management, better communicate IT’s value for business, increase digital development capabilities and deliver solutions and services faster. Clients represent all major industries as well as Finnish public sector.
I also played a key role in Sofigate’s internal development. I act as a Product Manager for Sofigate’s ROUNDTABLE solution - a time and place independent methodology and social media tool for decision making facilitation. The role includes overall responsibility of the solution from concept development into agile software development projects. I’ve been responsible for completely redesigning the solution’s look & feel as well as major technical improvements. As a result, the solution usage and usability have increased.
More information on ROUNDTABLE can be found at www.sofigate.com/roundtable
2011 SOFIGATE, Espoo | Junior Advisor
Consultant and external facilitator in client’s IT management, development and transformation projects covering especially project management, sourcing & vendor management and change management.
As a result, clients’ projects were delivered on time, in budget and very often beyond expectations. Clients represent all major industries as well as Finnish public sector.
I also played a key user role and facilitator for Sofigate’s ROUNDTABLE solution by supporting in solution development with agile software development team, participating heavily in concept development, running internal facilitator trainings as well as supporting in sales and marketing. In addition I supported Sofigate’s sales and marketing by creating concept & sales presentations, content for social media channels and events.
2010 THE LINDE GROUP, München | Strategic Pricing Intern
In my work based in Munich area I was supporting the Global Pricing Team in various projects by generating presentation material concerning pricing concepts and strategies, searching and analysing pricing related research articles and by building a MS Excel based pricing strategy framework tool. Conducting online surveys, monitoring survey progress and reporting results was also a part of my work.
In addition I was working on projects related to value stream mapping and process mapping as well as conducting updates on corporate intranet. All this gave the actual pricing team ability to better concentrate on their primary tasks.
2009 TRIVAGO, Düsseldorf | Online Marketing Intern
As the only Finnish employee of the company I played a cruical role in developing and publishing a Finnish country platform for Trivago hotel price comparison website www.trivago.fi.
The multilingual job based in Düsseldorf included various projects in the fields of project management, market research, online marketing, search engine optimization (SEO), translations from English into Finnish, product quality assurance as well as community management and development.
2002 - 2008 Itella, Suomen Posti, Helsingin Sanomat | Summer intern
Sofigate is the leading Business Technology Transformation company in the Nordics with some 600 management consultants and technology experts.
Sofigate's BT Integrator (180+ consultants) focuses on offering full-service technology transformation services from design into delivering continuous value creation - all you need for leading business & tech transformation!
As an Executive CTO I'm responsible for building attractive stories for Sofigate's Studio & Operator business, creating and facilitating Nordic level market visibility and awareness, continuously developing our offering, supporting sales with solutions and compelling substance as well as facilitating CTO ecosystem within the business stream.
I also support customers in key transformation initiatives with Sofigate's spearhead concepts and full-service offering from design into continuous value creation for example in M&A’s and business transformations.
My strengths include wide understanding of IT and digitalization, experience from various industries both from strategic and operational levels, capabilities to visually summarize the essentials, workshop facilitation skills and the ability to deliver results rapidly. Seeing the big picture, creating new concepts from scratch and communicating them clearly with different stakeholders are also my strong sides.
2020 SOFIGATE, Espoo, Finland | Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
Sofigate's Strategic Planning & Governance business (~50 management consultants) focuses on helping customers in future business capability design and capability planning through strategy & management advisory, modernized business processes, sourcing and supplier management, finance management and leading enterprise architecture transformations.
As the Chief Technology Officer, I focused on helping customers with new spearheading concepts and best practices but also on conceptualizing new ways of working and supporting technologies.
I was responsible for developing the overall offering of the Strategic Planning & Governance business along with supporting technologies. I was a member of business unit management team as well as Sofigate's CTO network where I contribute to company wide business development.
My customer cases typically focused on business capability design, capability planning, operating model development, strategies and concept development.
2019 SOFIGATE, Espoo, Finland | Senior Advisor
Consultant, facilitator and project manager in wide rage of Digital Capability Development initiatives across industries. These initiatives cover development topics from all aspects of capability development; technology, processes and competences. Lately I've focused mainly on activities such as strategy, operating models, concept design and client’s overall technology management improvement and digital core renewals.
I'm also participating in Sofigate's concept development and act as Concept Owner for Sofigate’s ROUNDTABLE solution - a time and place independent methodology and social media tool for decision making facilitation.
2013 SOFIGATE, Espoo, Finland | Project Manager
Consultant, Facilitator and external Project Manager in client’s projects for successfully lifting their IT organizations to the next level. In the recent years I’ve focused especially on assignments covering (IT) strategies, operating models, concept development, development models and digital transformation.
My areas of responsibilities vary from analysing client’s current state through documentations and interviewing C-level executives, workshop facilitation, collaboration with key stakeholders, designing solutions that solve client’s challenges into visualizing findings in an easily adoptable way and presenting them for top management.
As a result, clients have been able to rise the level IT Operations Management, better communicate IT’s value for business, increase digital development capabilities and deliver solutions and services faster. Clients represent all major industries as well as Finnish public sector.
I also played a key role in Sofigate’s internal development. I act as a Product Manager for Sofigate’s ROUNDTABLE solution - a time and place independent methodology and social media tool for decision making facilitation. The role includes overall responsibility of the solution from concept development into agile software development projects. I’ve been responsible for completely redesigning the solution’s look & feel as well as major technical improvements. As a result, the solution usage and usability have increased.
More information on ROUNDTABLE can be found at www.sofigate.com/roundtable
2011 SOFIGATE, Espoo | Junior Advisor
Consultant and external facilitator in client’s IT management, development and transformation projects covering especially project management, sourcing & vendor management and change management.
As a result, clients’ projects were delivered on time, in budget and very often beyond expectations. Clients represent all major industries as well as Finnish public sector.
I also played a key user role and facilitator for Sofigate’s ROUNDTABLE solution by supporting in solution development with agile software development team, participating heavily in concept development, running internal facilitator trainings as well as supporting in sales and marketing. In addition I supported Sofigate’s sales and marketing by creating concept & sales presentations, content for social media channels and events.
2010 THE LINDE GROUP, München | Strategic Pricing Intern
In my work based in Munich area I was supporting the Global Pricing Team in various projects by generating presentation material concerning pricing concepts and strategies, searching and analysing pricing related research articles and by building a MS Excel based pricing strategy framework tool. Conducting online surveys, monitoring survey progress and reporting results was also a part of my work.
In addition I was working on projects related to value stream mapping and process mapping as well as conducting updates on corporate intranet. All this gave the actual pricing team ability to better concentrate on their primary tasks.
2009 TRIVAGO, Düsseldorf | Online Marketing Intern
As the only Finnish employee of the company I played a cruical role in developing and publishing a Finnish country platform for Trivago hotel price comparison website www.trivago.fi.
The multilingual job based in Düsseldorf included various projects in the fields of project management, market research, online marketing, search engine optimization (SEO), translations from English into Finnish, product quality assurance as well as community management and development.
2002 - 2008 Itella, Suomen Posti, Helsingin Sanomat | Summer intern
Education2011 | UNIVERSITY OF VAASA, FINLAND
M.SC. in Strategic Management 2009 | VAASAN YLIOPISTO, FINLAND B.SC. in Management and Business Administration 2009 | LEIPZIG GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT ( HHL ), GERMANY International Exchange Studies 2005 | HAUKILAHTI HIGH SCHOOL, FINLAND Matriculation degree |
Language skillsFinnish | • • • • •
Native speaker English | • • • • • Fluent written, fluent spoken German | • • • • • Fair written, fair spoken Swedish | • • • • • Fair written, fair spoken |
Other relevant experience2014 | Innovator and concept creator at #parantajat online community
Active contribution in #parantajat online community. The idea behind #parantajat is to share ideas, innovate new solutions and create concepts to speed up digitalization and digital business. Most of the activities take place openly in Twitter and new cases and concepts are published at Ite wiki blog http://www.itewiki.fi/blog/ In December 2014 #parantajat was awared with two innovation prices at Apps4Finland competition (http://www.itewiki.fi/blog/2014/12/apps4finland-kilpailun-antia-ja-vuoden-2015-suunnittelua-2/) In January Finnish newspaper Länsiväylä publised an article about #parantajat and the award winning concept against bullying at schools (http://t.co/k2Hae4uMkE) 2010 | Sanoma Digital, Master's thesis assignment "Verkkokaupan kilpailuetu ja menestystekijät - Case Sanoma" (Competitive advantage and success factors of ecommerce - Case Sanoma) |
CertificatesSAFe 4 Agilist
Leading SAFe course certificate by Scaled Agile, Inc Elements of AI Online course by the University of Helsinki and Reaktor ICT ACADEMY FOR MANAGEMENT Sofigate - Atos Hybrid Service Academy Certificate ICT ACADEMY FOR MANAGEMENT CISP (Certified ICT Standard Professional) |
